It enables the ‘industrialisation’ of data centre design and construction.
Following on from the Latham and Egan reports in the 1990s, in 2016 the Farmer Report concluded that the industry must “modernise or die.”.Sully says that the key element we’ve been missing in construction is the ethos of collaboration and innovation found in other industries.
It’s a somewhat odd situation considering that the construction industry is inherently a collaborative one.Every asset we build requires many different parties to work together, but when the projects end, people go their separate ways as competitors.Although that’s all fine and good, ultimately it means we aren’t taking learnings forwards from one project to another.
Things aren’t being effectively fed back or built upon, and so we aren’t seeing the beneficial changes we desire.Sully believes it’s this lack of considered collaboration, and the need to overcome such issues, which is ultimately responsible for the lack of government funding we’ve seen, despite long-standing acknowledgement of the problems..
Things began to shift when the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), and some of the large industry players, began to talk about how we could start to work together to be more effective.
Bryden Wood’s efforts to develop P-DfMA processes and strategies utilising platform construction and manufacturing approaches have helped to facilitate an understanding of the ways we might achieve our desired goals.. P-DfMA and The Ministry of Justice.The horrific experiences of two people in the 20. th.
Century formed the foundation of an abiding philosophy.Victor Frankl, who survived a concentration camp in WW2 and went on to write “Man’s search for meaning” and General Stockdale, who was captured in Vietnam and survived brutal imprisonment, both concluded that living with the uncertainty in those times was key to survival.
The artificiality of grasping for certainty was a flawed survival strategy.Facing and accepting where you are today, with hope and certainty that you will find a solution, a way out at some point equipped people advantageously..
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